Near-field radiative heat transfer in many-body systems

SA Biehs, R Messina, PS Venkataram… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

Phonon-polaritonics: enabling powerful capabilities for infrared photonics

S Foteinopoulou, GCR Devarapu, GS Subramania… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Here, we review the progress and most recent advances in phonon-polaritonics, an
emerging and growing field that has brought about a range of powerful possibilities for mid …

Radiative heat transfer

JC Cuevas, FJ García-Vidal - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

Enhancement of near-field radiative heat transfer using polar dielectric thin films

B Song, Y Ganjeh, S Sadat, D Thompson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Thermal radiative emission from a hot surface to a cold surface plays an important role in
many applications, including energy conversion, thermal management, lithography, data …

[HTML][HTML] Near-field radiative thermal transport: From theory to experiment

B Song, A Fiorino, E Meyhofer, P Reddy - AIP advances, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Radiative thermal transport via the fluctuating electromagnetic near-field has recently
attracted increasing attention due to its fundamental importance and its impact on a range of …

Review of near‐field thermal radiation and its application to energy conversion

S Basu, ZM Zhang, CJ Fu - International Journal of Energy …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding energy transfer via near‐field thermal radiation is critical for the future
advances of nanotechnology. Evanescent waves and photon tunneling are responsible for …

Near-field heat transfer between graphene/hBN multilayers

B Zhao, B Guizal, ZM Zhang, S Fan, M Antezza - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We study the radiative heat transfer between multilayer structures made by a periodic
repetition of a graphene sheet and a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) slab. Surface plasmons …

Near-field radiative heat transfer between parallel structures in the deep subwavelength regime

R St-Gelais, L Zhu, S Fan, M Lipson - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Thermal radiation between parallel objects separated by deep subwavelength distances
and subject to large thermal gradients (> 100 K) can reach very high magnitudes, while …

Near-field thermophotovoltaic energy conversion: progress and opportunities

R Mittapally, A Majumder, P Reddy, E Meyhofer - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Direct conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state approaches is a rapidly advancing area
of research owing to its prospective use in recovering waste heat and in energy storage and …

Fundamental limits to optical response in absorptive systems

OD Miller, AG Polimeridis, MT Homer Reid, CW Hsu… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
At visible and infrared frequencies, metals show tantalizing promise for strong
subwavelength resonances, but material loss typically dampens the response. We derive …